Prioritizing nonpharmacologic strategies, enhancing staff training, and distinguishing Delirium Superimposed on Dementia (DSD) are vital to improving outcomes for hospitalized patients with Alzheimer ...

Discover how sedation dentistry at Meredith Davis, DDS helps anxious patients overcome fear, receive care comfortably and ...

Sedation in the context of palliative medicine is the monitored use of medications to induce varying degrees of unconsciousness to bring about a state of decreased or absent awareness (i.e.

A high proportion of time spent in medication-induced deep sedation in the ICU was associated with an increased risk of loss of independent living in an observational study. About a third of that ...

Lying there wide-awake as the doctor removed the colonoscopy tube from my hinder, I recalled that time in the 1980s when I had four impacted wisdom teeth gouged from my jaw while under nothing but a ...

Recent news stories relating to the "end of life" have brought public attention to palliative sedation (PS), a therapeutic procedure about which unfortunately little is known in the healthcare world ...

Indiana currently does not have a law to expressly prohibit doctors or medical students from performing exams on you that you didn't agree to before being sedated.

Toward the end, the pain had practically driven Elizabeth Martin mad. By then, the cancer had spread everywhere, from her colon to her spine, her liver, her adrenal glands and one of her lungs.

The increasing use of deep sedation for routine colonoscopy in North America is a trend that should be curtailed. Deep sedation is of marginal benefit. Deep sedation costs more than traditional ...

A healthy mouth is important at every age, but good dental health is especially crucial for children. From infancy through ...

In critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients, daily interruption of sedation has been shown to reduce the time on ventilation and the length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU). Data on ...